Data breach broker selling user records stolen from 26 companies https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/data-breach-broker-selling-user-records-stolen-from-26-companies/
How Zoom violated its own terms of service for access to China’s market https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-zoom-violated-its-own-terms-service-access-china-s-n1252092
Hackers Stole emails from Microsoft cloud Services https://www.cyberkendra.com/2020/12/hackers-stole-emails-from-microsoft.html
Powerful Mobile Phone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity Across the Country https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/police-phone-surveillance-dragnet-cellhawk/
The Massive SolarWinds Hack Won’t Stop the Feds from Wanting All Your Data https://reason.com/2020/12/22/the-massive-solarwinds-hack-wont-stop-the-feds-from-wanting-all-your-data/
Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware, says Citizen Lab https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/20/citizen-lab-iphone-nso-group/
iPhones vulnerable to hacking tool for months, researchers say https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/20/iphones-vulnerable-to-hacking-tool-for-months-researchers-say
Firefox to ship ‘network partitioning’ as a new anti-tracking defense https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-ship-network-partitioning-as-a-new-anti-tracking-defense/
Europol and the European Commission inaugurate new decryption platform to tackle the challenge of encrypted material for law enforcement investigations https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/europol-and-european-commission-inaugurate-new-decryption-platform-to-tackle-challenge-of-encrypted-material-for-law-enforcement
US cyber-attack: Around 50 firms ‘genuinely impacted’ by massive breach https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55386947
Microsoft: 2021 is the year passwords die https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-2021-is-the-year-passwords-die
Tech giants will block Kazakhstan’s web surveillance efforts again https://www.engadget.com/tech-giants-browsers-block-kazakhstan-web-surveillance-080031499.html
I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump. We’re Being Hacked. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/fireeye-solarwinds-russia-hack.html
“Evil mobile emulator farms” used to steal millions from US and EU banks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/evil-mobile-emulator-farms-used-to-steal-millions-from-us-and-eu-banks/